The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-03-31

Snow in New Hampshire is from six
to eight feet deep.
- New York city has 10000 landlords,
who collect $50, 100000 rent.
The telephone has been successfully
used along barbed wire fences in Califor.
MIA.
= The Arkansas House, by vote Of
SO to 80, has passed bill to prevent the
mortgaging of implanted crops.
1t is estimated that the beggars of
Rome received 1000, 900 year in aims,
and that five hundred of them are worth
from $4,000 to $25,0O0 each.
Col. Andrew Jackson and DR.. Hugh
G. Jackson, two brothers living in York
county, about four miles apart, died on
Friday within three hours of each other.
: Benz. F. Huger, postmaster at
Charleston, died last Friday night. The
News and Courier of Sunday says that
there are half a dozen applicants for che
place already.
= Reports from England, France,
Germany, Spain and Italy show that they
are having cold, dreary, backward
spring, and, in fact, that. the season in
Europe is an "exceptionar one.
"A farm in the southeast corner of
Louisiana and said to be the largest
known, runs one hundred miles North
and South. The immense tract is
divided into convenient pastures, with
stations or ranches every six miles.
The fencing alone cost $4,000.
H. g. Parsons, who is regarded as
Blaine's mouth piece, says the plumed
knight has not yet decided to be q candi.
date for the republican nomination for
president next year, but that if he does
decide to run, no other republican will
have the ghost of a chance.
To meet the growing scarcity of
whalebone, and it's consequent increased
cost, various substitutes have been
brought forward among the most recent
is the employment of geese and turkeys
quills, factory for this kind of manu-.
facture having been established in Mich.
gan.
The secretary of State of Massachu.
setts has issued g. report showing to what
extent women have taken advantage Of
the law passed in 1880 permitting them
to vote at school board elections. In
1881 1,517 ladies voted, and in 1886
1,911. The largest possible female vote
in the State is $4,000, and hence it
would appear that after six years less
than six women out of every thousand
take the trouble 10 record their votes.
- at Newark, O., on Wednesday
night Jacob Beard and his wife had
quarrel. She scalded her husband by
throwing boiling water on him, causing
him intense pain, and he died Thursday
night from the scald. The woman is
reported now as being maniac after
seeing what she had done. 1t is found
necessary to keep her in locked room
to prevent her from committing violence
to others. She will probably be arrest.
ed.
Local reporters and others who have
observed the runaway accidents know
that the greatest number of them occur
in the spring of the year. A veteran
horse owner and lover who was talking
of the subject on yesterday said it is not
safe to leave any horse, however good its
record and temper, unattended at this
season. he explained that the animals
are now shedding and are in an intensely
nervous and irritable condition, their
skins itching and smarting from the
change they are undergoing. This is q,
valuable hint for horse owners.
- Mrs. W. @. Sibley, of Augusta,
president of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union of Georgia, has writ.
ten letter on the subject of woman
suffrage. She says that tbe Union is not
committed to woman suffrage, but as in
dividuals its members hold whatever
views they please. She does not think
that the Georgia members favor woman
suffrage and says that ''if the men of
other States respond as nobly as those of
Georgia have done to the appeals for
home protection there will be no neces-
sity for the women of this country to de.
fend themselves at the ballot.box."
= One of the most causeless and wan.
ton acts OF injustice ever committed by
the government authority was the hang.
ing of Mrs. Surratt, accused of being
party to the death of President Lincoln,
murdered by mailman. The chief wit.
ness against the unfortunate woman was
a man named Spandauer, whose testimo.
ny was then believed by many to be
false, made up for the occasion, and but
for the popular rage against the perpe.
traitors of the murder would not in all
probability have been accepted by the
Court. The poor woman suffered death
through his statements, and since then
he has turned up as manufacturer Of
perjured evidence to order. Only few
days ago in Baltimore this miscreant was
sent to Jail to answer charges of suborna-
ton of-periury in divorce case. It is
.to.be hoped that full and complete jus.
t;na will at 1enoth ovartake him